Ice-house.



(LA. P. TURNER.

ICB HOUSE.

APPLIOATIONHLED JULY 21, 191s.

1,106,854.. n Patented Aug. u, 1914 2 SHEETB-SHEBT 1.

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C. LP. TURNER.

ICE HOUSE.

APPLIGATION FILED JULY21,1913.

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@Nl-TE @MENS FArVllFiNT FFlltCllit CLAUDE A. P. TURNER, OF MINNEAPOLIS,MINNESOTA.

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T0 al?, whomit may concern Be it known that I, CLAUDE A; P. TUR- NER, acitizen of the United States, residing at `Minneapolis,` in the countyof Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Ice-l Houses, and have described the same in thefollowing specification, illustrated by the accompanying drawings Myinvention relates to buildings of the class used for the storage andpreservation of ice. Its object is to render such buildings reproof andcapable of withstanding both wind pressure from without and icepressure, as well as insulation pressure, from within; to insulate thebuilding in a superior manner for thepurpose of preventing, as far aspossible, the shrinkage of the ice by melting; to keep the contained iceseparate from the insulating material and clean; to insulate for ariditythe material used for thermic insulation; to utilize concrete as theprincipal building material in the con struction of ice-houses; and ingeneral to increase the permanency, efficiency and cleanliness ofbuildings of this class. To accomplish these objects I incorporate in anicehouse a plurality of reinforced concrete columns, which form theskeleton of the building walls, double external walls of reinforcedconcrete which are formed integrally with the columns, a roof andceiling which are united as a truss supported by these walls, andinsulating material occupying closed chambers in the wallsand next tothe ceiling.

Although the accompanying drawings show the' best manner in which I havecontemplated applying the principles of the invention, yet the latter isnot restricted to any specific arrangen'lent or construction of parts,excepting as limitations of that kind are either expressed ornecessarily implied in the subjoined claims.

Figure 1 is a horizontal sectiomof an icehouse which is constructed inaccordance with the principles referred to. This section may be regardedas taken on the section line A-A of the next following figure. Fig. 2

is av vertical section of the same icehouse on the section line B-B ofFig. l. Fig. S is a vertical section on the section line o o of Fig. l.Fig. 4t is a horizontal section of a portion of one of the externalwalls of the building, on the section line A-A- of Specification ofLetters Patent.

'Application filed July 21, 1913.

Patented Aue'. ill, 1914i,

Serial No. 780,100.

wall members, or constituent walls 5 and 6,-

and a plurality of columns, piers or posts 7, which are formedintegrally with these wall members. Each of these columns contains anumber of reinforcing steel rods 8 embedded therein, has a broadenedbase 9, and is adapted to act under lateral pressure as a vertical beamfThe wall members 5 and 6 are tied together at intervals by the bolts 11and are uniformly spaced by the studs 12 which are held in place bythese bolts, as shown in Fig. 4l. To hold oil' the ice from the innerface of the internal wall members 5 each of the latter is provided withdrip boards 13, which are spaced therefrom. To insulate the concret-ccolumns 7, each of them is protected by a hollow pilaster 14, which isformed integrally with the wall member 6 and has an internal closedchamber l5 broader than the column. This chamber, as well as the closedchambers 16 which are formed between thewall members 5 and o, is packedfull with dry, regranulated cork, or other like insulating materialwhich is denoted by the same numerals l5 and 10. Door-ways 17, providedwith doors 17, open through the front wall 1 at convenient intei-valsfor the introduction of ice into the building; and similar doorways 17through the partition walls 4J, connect the main internal compartmentsof the building.

An external stairway 18 leads from rthc ground 10 to the top of thebuilding` at one end 3. The floor 19, sloping downward frtm thesurrounding walls to the middle of each main compartment, rests on a bedof cinders, or other insulating material 2O on the gro-und beneath. Itis formed of reinforced cement, and has a central perforation over thecatch-basin 215 and all the catch-basins are drained by a single trappedtile pipe 22. The roof 23 and the ceiling 24, formed of refrom below bythe internal ladder 32. Over y the middle of each unitary structureshown in Fig. l, the roof 23 supports a cupola 28, which is a turretbuilt of incombustible material. On the floor 3l of this cupola standsthe motor 33 for operating the connected ele vator 34 in the shaft 35;and in the side of this elevator shaft is fixed the vertical stop guide36, which is adapted to retain on the inclined elevator floor 37 theloads of ice that are lifted thereon, and to permit the same to slideoil into the adjacent mouth of the chute 38 in the attic 26 whenever theelevator rises higher than the top of this stop. Conducted by this chuteto the door 27, the blocks of ice may be there discharged into anexternal chute, not shown in the drawings. As shown in F ig. 3, theceiling 24 has the joists 42 lresting thereon, the chambers 43 formed byand between the joists, the cinders, regranulated cork or other thermicinsulation 43, occupying` those chambers, the board Hooring 44 laid onthese joists, the oiled paper, or other moistureexcludin insulation 45covering this floor, and the at slab or thin covering, of cement mortar46 on this insulation.

lbeams; resists bursting pressure from the' This improved ice house isfireproof by reason of the incombustibility of the prin cipal materialsof its construction; is capable of withstanding the lateral pressure ofwind and the outward pressure of ice lby reason of the reinforcedcolumns incorpo-A rated iri its walls and acting as vertical interior ofits double walls by the plurality of ties connecting the inner and theouter members of these walls; attains superior thermic insulation bymeans of the pilasters adjacent to these columns; preserves theetliciency of the insulating medium by protecting the same frommoisture; and promotes cleanliness and other sanitary conditions byplacing that medium in distributed and closed chambers, separate fromthe ice.

I claim as my invention-- l. A building of the specified class,comprising concrete walls integrally united, a plurality of horizontallower bea-ms of the same-material supported bythe walls, a

` ceiling of like material supported bv those beams, a fioor of likematerial insulated from the celhng and supported thereon, a

`plurality of horizontal concrete upper beams spaced from the lowerbeams, a roof formed integrally with the upper beams, and means forLying the upper and the lower beams tbgether as chords of a trussspanningthe walls. A

2. A building of the specified class, comprising vertical walls, aplurality of horizontal beams of reinforced concrete, supported on thewalls, acement ceiling formed integrally with the beams, a plurality ofspaced Joists laid upon the ceiling, thermically insulating materialbetween the joists, a ioor upon the joists, a moisture-excluding coveron the floor, and a wearing slab of cement laid upon the cover.

8. A building of the specified class, comprising walls, a plurality ofhorizontal lower beams supported by the walls, a ceiling and a floorwhich are separated fromeach other by insulating chambers and aresupported by the lower beams, a plurality ofhorizontal upper beamsspaced from the lower beams, a 'roof upon the upper beams, ,and v meansfor' tying the upper and the lower beams together as chords of a trussspanning the walls.

v 4. A building of the specified class, comprising vertical `concretewalls, a plurality of horizontal lower beamsterminally su ported by thewalls, a ceiling secured to t e lower beams, a floor supported bytheceiling and insulated therefrom, a covering upon the Hoor, a pluralityof horizontal upper beams spaced from the lower beams, and

means for' tying the upper to the lower.

beams as chords of a truss spanning the walls.

5. A building of the specified class, comprising concrete externalwalls, which are unitedwith each other, a 'roof-and ,ceiling which arespaced apart and tied together as chords of a truss supported by saidwalls, thermically insulating material over the ceiling, and means forinsulating said insulating material for the exclusionv of moisture.

6. A fireproof 'building of the specified

